Overview

Beatrice Mayfield specialises in hand embroidered textiles using a range of traditional embroidery techniques and processes combined with hand print. Intricate areas of stitch, embellishment or raised work provide pattern and texture and all work incorporates a high level of craftsmanship with contemporary design.

She produces a range of jewellery and accessories, including brooches, neckpieces and scarves. There is a long tradition within textiles and particularly embroidery of re- appropriation. The ‘good’ part of a garment being cut down and re-used; appliques that can be moved to another garment; changeable collars or cuffs used for ‘best’. Small pieces of decoration that lift a garment, when it is impractical or unaffordable to have the whole piece covered. Her work fits into this history, the wearer can add embellishment where and when they want through a brooch or a neckpiece.

She is interested in exploring what textile jewellery can be, questioning how pieces are worn and where there are cross overs between garments & jewellery. Hand embroidery techniques are always at the centre of these designs, creating the texture & colour, normally provided by precious metals and gems. She explores the use of non-precious & unconventional materials to create heirlooms of the future. All inspiration comes from the landscape, normally that of London where she is based.

Beatrice is also one third of LOT, a collaborative project with jewellers, Sarah Pulvertaft & Jed Green. They started working together in 2017 & have shown at London Craft Week in 2018, Collect Open in 2019 & recently presented a new piece for Crafts Alive at Rodmarton Manor commissioned by Gloucestershire Guild.

Biography

 

2012-14      Elisabeth Roulleau Studio, Lyon, Haute Couture techniques

                     Royal School of Needlework, Traditional embroidery techniques

                     Central St Martins, short courses in hand embroidery

 

1190-93      Chelsea College of Art, UAL, Ba (Hons) Public Art: Textile specialisation

 

 

 

 


Exhibitions and shows

 

2023            MADE London, presented by Tutton & Young

2023            Christmas Fair, presented by Craft Central, London

2023            House Guests, David Pass House, Cambridge

2023            Future Icons Selects, Bargehouse, London presented by Louisa Pacifico for London Craft   

                     Week

2023            Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, Summer & Winter (on-line)

2023            Collect 2023, presented by the Crafts Council, Somerset House, London with Ruup&Form

2022            Prints Pots and Jewellery, Atelier by the Sea, Brighton

2022            Christmas Showcase, New Brewery Arts

2022            Mostly Monochrome, Unit Twelve Gallery, Stafford

2021            Christmas Display, Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool

2021            Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, Summer & Winter (on-line)

2021            Disobedience, Ruup & Form for London Craft Week

2021            LOT 3, Crafts Alone, Rodmarton Manor presented by the Gloucestershire Guild of 

                     Craftsmen  

2021            Adorn Axis, in conjunction with NYC x DESIGN, USA (Online)

2021            Digital Craft Festival, Spring (Online)

2020            Digital Craft Festival, Winter (Online)

2020            LOT 2, Collect Open, Collect presented by the Crafts Council, Somerset House, London

 

 

 


Selected Collaborations & Commissions

 

 

2017- Present       Seven Kings Embroideries for All Saints Church, Kingston

                                (In collaboration with digital embroider Jacky Puzey)

2022                       Reclaim, London Design Festival, commissioned by Ruup & Form

2021                       LOT 3, In collaboration with Sarah Pulvertaft and Jed Green, commissioned by

                                Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen

2020                       LOT 2, In collaboration with Sarah Pulvertaft and Jed Green, Collect Open, Collect

                                presented by the Crafts Council at Somerset House

2019                       Out of the Blue by Susan Aldworth, exhibited at Hatton Gallery, Newcastle

                                Craft Week

 

 

 

 

2019                       LOT 1, In collaboration with Sarah Pulvertaft and Jed Green, Retrouvius as part of  

                                London

 

 

 


Directories & Membership of Professional Bodies

 

Representation by Ruup & Form, London

Member of Design Nation

Representation on Find a Maker, Craft Festival

Representation on the Crafts Council Directory

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